Hillman Publications was one of the smaller publishers of its day, dabbling in comics among other ventures. It's best known now for its aviation comics, and especially Airboy.

But this post features a truly obscure publication, "Joe College Comics". It's teenage romantic comedy hijinks in the tradition of Archie, but with slightly older protagonists.

Fair warning and trigger warning: The cover story heavily relies on ethnic stereotypes of Native Americans outdated even in the 1950s, and some subversions of same for comedy. Because of that, I am placing the cover under the cut as well. This story is a product of its time and uses slang and loaded words that are not acceptable by today's standards. It's also kind of sexist.

Joe College Comics, Winter 1950, is in the public domain, so the following story may be brought to you in its entirety.

Note the early Comics Code marker.

And it turns out to be a "Just So" story.

Next time I'll be posting something a little more in line with what you've come to expect from me.

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Huh... what do they call it when a "Billy AverageTeen" main character somehow becomes the #1 man to a dozen different girls who are willing to kiss him no matter what the situation calls for it. It seems to start here and and Archie, and is done without shame on nearly every school/teen theme anime...

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There's this really good Archie story in which Betty and Veronica sit down and realize they don't really have any good reasons for why they're so attracted to Archie and so they both dump him. Immediately, all these girls start trying to date him because they want to know what made Archie so special that two super hot girls wanted him. This makes Betty and Veronica jealous, so they start trying to get him back to, the general implication being that the only thing that makes Archie attractive is the fact that other girls want him.